Time and Causation

We do what we do because we believe what we believe. Or do we? How does mental causation work? 

The idea that there are real metaphysical necessities relating cause and effect. 

The idea that causation is a relation science will one day discover. 

Time is the one thing you experience every single second of your life. And nobody can explain what it actually is.You feel it passing. You watch it on clocks. You lose it. You waste it. You wish you had more of it. But if someone asked you to explain what time actually is, you'd ... Show More

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Learn an expression about coincidences. 

Learn some useful phrases for talking about cause and effect. 

<p>What are we to make of coincidence? From the numerological cats cradles we weave around famous events to the curious ways human lives converge through time, coincidence seems to fly in the face of reason and even suggest the supernatural. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your ... Show More

Daniel and Kelly take some time to puzzle of the nature of time, an eternally timely mystery.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Learn how to talk about time. 

Everything that happens in this world is the result of an action. There is no coincidence, if this is correct. For something to have happened, an event of some kind had to precede the outcome. The common example is that a rock tossed in water causes ripples. One could not rightly ... Show More

Neil and Catherine look at time expressions with 'in', 'at' and 'on'. 

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by actor and writer Mark Gatiss, theoretical physicists Carlo Rovelli and Fay Dowker to ask timely questions about time. Is time real, does it exist in the fundamental laws of physics, and if it doesn't, why do we experience the sensation of ti ... Show More